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^tumorous fl opart incut. High Finance. The late Bishop Potter, at one of the delightful reunions of the Episcopal academy In Philadelphia?Bishop Potter was educated at this venerable and aristocratic school?condemned modern finance. "I condemn at least," he is reported to have said, "that sort of modern finance that consists in getting something for nothing. I once knew a boy who would have made a splendid financier. "This boy, strolling idly through the streets?he never had anything to do? met another. " T wish,' he said, 'that I had a nickel. Then I'd buy a good 5-cent cigar onU ?rr\ lr?tr? the wnnds nri/1 have SL smoke.' " 'I have a nickel,' said the other boy. '"Have you?' the first cried eagerly. 'Then let's form a corporation.' " 'All right. How is it done?' " 'I'll be the president. You'll be the stockholder. The nickel will be the capital and we'll invest it in tobacco.' 'The thing was agreed to and the president, taking the stockholder's 5 cents, bought a cigar forthwith. Then he led the way to the woods. There he sat down on a log. lit up and began to smoke skillfully. "The stockholder waited for his turn to come. He waited very patiently. But the cigar diminished. One-third of it, two-thirds of it disappeared and still the president showed no signs of satiety. "'Say!' exclaimed the stockholder at last, 'don't I get a whack here?' "The president, knocking ofT the ashes, shook his head. " 'I don't see it,' he said. " 'But what,' shouted the angry stockholder, 'do I get for my capital?' " 'Well, said the president, 'you can spit.' "?Washington Star. An Intelligent Juror.?"The common practice of lawyers in addressing a Jury to single out one member who seems to them the most Intelligent, and, therefore, the one most likely to be influenced by their appeals," observes a Chicago attorney, "does not always work out advantageoqsly. "All the testimony in a case recently tried in Ohio had been taken, the lawyers for both sides had summed up, and the Judge had charged the jury, when up rose the intelligent Juror against whom both counsel had thundered their impassioned appeals. He wanted the court to give him some information. "I have been bothered a good deal by two words the la.wyers use here all the time," said the intelligent Juror. "What are they?" asked the court, expecting, no doubt, to be called upon to expound res inter alios acta or a fortiori, or some other abstruse term. " 'Plaintiff* and 'defendant,' " said the juror. "I don't know Just what they mean."?Harper's Weekly. Himself a Hayseed.?"Oh, yes," Senator La Follette reluctantly admitted of a corrupt politician. "I suppose the man has some sense of honor. When won't you find some sense of honor, though? You know the story of Judson of Madison. "Judson of Madison was showing his country cousin the sights of the city. " 'But there are crooks and blacklegs there, Joe,' he said. 'You must look out for them.' "And half by way of a joke, half by way of impressing the city's perils and pitfalls on Joe, Judson slyly nipped his cousin's handkerchief from his pocket. "A moment later a well-dressed stranger took him by the arm and led him aside. " 'Excuse me. pard,' the stranger whispered, 'I didn't know you was in the profesh.' "And he handed Judson back his own watch."?Washington Star. Detestable and Heinous. ? The class at kirk had been reading the story of Joseph and his brethren, and it came to the turn of the visiting minister to examine the boys. The replies to all of his questions had been quick, intelligent and correct. Such as: "What great crime did these sons of Jacob commit?" "They sold their brother Joseph." "Quite correct. And for how much?" "Twenty pieces of silver." "And what added to the cruelty and wickedness of these bad brothers?" A pause. "What made their treachery even more detestable and heinous?" Then a bright little fellow stretched out an eager hand. "Well, my man?" "Please, sir. they sell't him ower cheaD."?PhiladelDhia Record. A Discrimination.?"Bishop Potter was a wonderfully effective preacher," said a Brooklyn clergyman. "His method was reserved and quiet. He always had himself well in hand. "I once delivered a sermon before him. I was young and enthusiastic at the time, a disciple of the methods of Talmage. I let myself go in that sermon. My voice shook the church. My gestures shook the pulpit. "At luncheon, afterward, I am ashamed to say that I fished for compliments. I leaned over to the bishop and asked him in a low voice to give me some advice on preaching. "Dear knows what I expected him to reply?probably that I was beyond any advice from him. At any rate, what he did reply was this: ** <xc.. frior\/l novor mid- I my ucai juuhs mvim, - , take, in the pulpit, perspiration for inspiration.' "?Washington Star. ? ? Self-Disgraced.?In Boston, as every one knows, the Symphony concerts j are viewed in the light of sacred ceremonials. In this connection the story | is told of two little girls of a certain family who returned from the music hall "in a state of mind." One of them carried an expression of deep scorn; the other an air of great dejection. "What is the matter, girls?" asked some member of the household. "Was the concert fine?" "The concert was all right," responded Eleanor. "The trouble was with Mary. She disgraced herself." "Disgraced herself?'* "Yes. she sneezed In the middle of the symphony."?Philadelphia Ledger. A New Law.?Parents of Wayne, a suburb of Philadelphia, are required to report promptly any case of contagious disease, in compliance with the regulations of the local board of health. In accordance with this order. Health Officer Learv received this post card recently. "Dear Sir?This is to notify you that my boy Ephraim is down bad with the measles as required by the new law."? Harper's Weekly. |t)isf?Uanrou$ heading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES. News and Comment Gleaned From Within and About the County. LANCASTER. News, October 3: Master Bevan Walters. the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Walters of Dixie, met with a painful and serious accident last Sunday evening. He went out on the piazza to get a drink of water, when his foot slipped and caused him to fall to the ground, breaking both bones of his arm Miss Lula Smith has a caladium the leaves of which are unusually immense, some of them being 52 inches in length and 35 inches in width. Her lemon tree is bearing this year, one of the lemons measuring 12 inches in circumference Burke Stevenson, a colored youth, was pretty badly scaidj ed on the leg's Wednesday at Mr. W. J. Cunningham's gin, by steam escaping from the boiler. A patch on the boiler was accidentally knocked off in putting wood Into the furnace, which caused the steam to escape. CHESTER. Lantern, October 2: Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Nunnery announce the marriage of their daughter Mary to Mr. Richard Wright Adams, Wednesday, October 7, at their home at Wylle's Mill. The ceremony will be an informal affair, witnessed only by a few intimate friends and relatives Mr. J. Monroe Grant told ut Tuesday of some good work In picking cotton on the farm 'of his son, Mr. J. Martin Grant. About 1,500 pounds were picked in one day. One of the hands picked 325, another 316, and a third 216. The last was a woman, and at midnight she added another little cotton picker to her family. Mrs. Maggie Horton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Starnes, and Mr. W. D. Roof, both of this city, were married Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 29, at the parsonage of Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church, the Rev. C. G. Brown officiating Miss Emily Jordan and Mr. John Mobley were married at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 30, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. G. W. Jordan at Rodman. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. S. Martin of Richburg. The marriage was witnessed by only a few near relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. The groom and his bride were given a wedding dinner yesterday at the home of his father, Mr. R. B. Mobley, in the same neighborhood Mr. Ernest Atkinson, a young man of the Armenia neighborhood, Chester county, has the following cotton picking record: Monday, 331 pounds; Tuesday, 421 pounds: Wednesday, 300 pounds; Thursday, 357 pounds: Friday, 270 pounds. Leaving off Friday, he picked a good bale in four days. Where is the man who can beat this record for one day or four or five days? Mr. John G. Magill died Tuesday night. September 29. at his home on McLure street, after an illness of several months following paralysis. He was 69 years old and was a Confederate veteran, having served in company A, Seventeenth regiment during the civil war. Mr. Magi!! moved here from near Richburg about two years ago. Previous to that time he had served as magistrate for Lewisville township for a number of years. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ma| tllda Cauthen of Lancaster county, and the last wife was a Miss Blankenship of Fort Mill. who. with two children, survives him. He is also survived by three children of the first family, Mrs. S. S. McNinch and Mrs. W. F. Buchanan of Charlotte, and Mr. Chas. Magill of Fort Mill. The funeral services were at the home at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. C. E. McDonald and the burial was in Evergreen cemetery by the side of two little children who had preceded him to their grave. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 3: The little child of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bratton, who moved here some days ago from Yorkville. and are at tne trails nouse, is quite critically ill with gastritis, but was reported as being some better this morning A hunting party composed of Messrs. W. X. Davis, Dave Meachem, Rush Foy, Jim Meuchem and a number of other lovers of sport from Dallas, Gastonia and Lowell had an exciting fox chase on Spencer mountain Wednesday night. After an exciting chase they landed a grey fox Hazel, the five-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stowe, died rather suddenly at their home Wednesday afternoon about 1.30 o'clock. The child had been suffering for a week or two from malaria but had not been confined to its bed. It ate a hearty dinner Wednesday and was playing in the yard when it became suddenly ill and died within twenty minutes before medical aid could be obtained. The exact cause of its death is not known though it was doubtless due to heart failure superinduced by the malaria from which it had been suffering. Funeral services were held at the home yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Stowe have the sympathy of a large number or friends in their bereavement Last Sunday was Missionary Rally Day at West End Methodist church, and a most interesting and profitable service was held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. The church was prettily decorated for the occasion and mere was a large anu aucnuve audience present. Besides songs and recitations, the main feature of the service was a sermon by Rev.. E. K. Hardin, of Clover, S. C., who preached from the text: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him might not perish, but have 'ife eternal." The discourse was an able presentation of the mission of the church in the world and was greatly enjoyed by all who heard it. tcT Camille Flammarion, the astronomer, declares that from actual figures recently obtained he has become certain that the temperature of Europe has been falling. France has been suffering for a long time from an excess of cold weather, the temperature at Paris having been one degree below the normal. Other readings show even less favorable results. The fall is more noticeable in the spring than at other periods of the year. Similar conditions are recorded in England, Belgium. Spain. Italy. Austria and Germany. Jt^'Fradel Osterwal, one of the many Russian refugees in Paris, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. In his room was found a card on which he had scribbled, "Please inform my mother that I leave for eternity today." KING CORN. Various Uses of a Most Wonderful Cereal. A grain of corn found In the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy which had laid in the tomb for forty centuries. was planted and grew into a great cornstalk, with spreading leaves and heavy golden ears. During that period of quiescence more than one hundred generations of men had lived and toiled and gone to their long rest, yet the life-spark in that kernel of corn survived, as by a miracle, and burst forth anew after four thousand years of slumber. Scarcely less wonderful does it appear that the very paper this article is printed on may be Imbued with corn stalk fibers, the new material that is shortly to take the place of wood for paper making. Are you going to the woods for sport? Ten to one the smokeless powder of your shotgun contains a cellulose nitrate made from corn. Thus it may happen that the ducks you blaze away at were fattened from the same field of corn that yields the power to drive the shot into them. If you carry a camera your films are probably coated with collodion that was made from corn pith. If you are touring in an auto your lubricating oil is made from corn, if you have the kind that does not gum; an if you have the latest machine that explodes denatured alcohol instead of gasoline, your alcohol is practically certain to be made of corn. Corn is the most omnipresent thing in the universe. Go where you will you can not get away from it. As the moving picture machine flashes its hundreds of thousands of films on the screen little do we think that these miles of picture films would not operate without sensitizing material based on cellulose, obtained mainly from the humble corn stalk. The average man, if asked if he could get along without corn, would unhesitatingly answer yes. He would bethink himself only of the hot johnny cake or corn muffin, or corn in some form as a breakfast food, or possibly of popcorn. But how his mouth would have lengthened at the corners if told that he must pay an extra cent or two for every starched thing he wears if the laundry may not use corn starch; that his soap will rise in price without corn oil from the glucose factory; that cheap silk ties must be no more because the cellulose adulteration is based on corn pith! Tell him that his mucilage bottle will cost him ten cents instead of five if gum arable is used instead of dextrind, made of corn. Remind him that he must go back to molasses for table syrup, and that candies will be both more costly and less palatable if deprived of the grape sugar or glucose contents. If this average man still thinks he can get along without corn, point out to him that the very great navy of this country would be fatally weakened in battle but for the linings of corn pith In the vessels' hulls. When a shot penetrates the armor and lets in the water the corn pith swells and fills the hole. A navy without cornpith would be as helpless as an oldfashioned Spanish armada in a modern sea fight. Remind the man also that the animals of the country rely principally on corn for food, and that beef, pork, poultry and dairy products would double in price but for cheap corn feed. Indian corn is as remarkable for the tremendous quantities in which it is grown as for its novel and peculiar uses. In 1906 there were actually three billion bushels grown in the United States?enough to feed the entire human family for three years, if they were confined to a corn diet. Most of this corn went into pork, poultry, beef and through the useful cow, into dairy products. The acreage planted in the year quoted was " million or more than an acre for each man, woman and child in the country. The money value of the crop was $1,170,000,000, or more than sufficient to pay the national debt. The corn crop of the United States is worth twelve times as much as the product of the gold mines; it is three times as large as the production of all the gold mines of the world. The entire capital and surplus of the six thousand and odd national banks in the United States exceeds the value of one year's corn crop by about twelve per cent. The corn crop of the country is greater in value than all other agricultural crops combined. It is one-third greater than that of metals. The fact that we grow thirty-five bushels of corn per capita and perhaps one hundred bushels of cornstalks and shucks indicates an amazing demand ."or corn and corn products. It would not be possible for us to consume so much corn unless it were used wastefully. We use ten pounds of corn to make a pound of beef, and then one of a one-thousand beef creature we eat only three hundred pounds of meat, thus spending thirty pounds of corn to get one of meat. If we eat wheat cakes for breakfast we really use twice as much corn as wheat, for the syrup is now made almost wholly from glucose, technically known as grape sugar or corn syrup. -tc />A?-.onmn nrPCPTVPS or iam 11 ? C tlMinUIIIV jy? vwv. ? v with our wheat bread to make it more palatable, again we consume corn, for the sweetmeats are based largely on this same corn syrup. If we eat Ice cream In summer it is mostly made of corn starch, and if we eat imitation oyster patties in winter we are still consuming corn. If we eat Boston beans and brown bread again we get corn, as this bread is two-thirds corn, darkened by corn syrup. The glucose factories buy corn by the train load and convert it primarily into glucose and secondarily into a series of by-products so that none of it is wasted. Glucose (known also as corn sugar, grape sugar or corn syrup) is really a valuable and wholesome food, and candles made half of corn sugar or glucose, and a half of cane sugar, ordinary sugar. The sweet girl graduate of today can consume three times as much candy as the girl of 18S0. just because it contains so much good, wholesome glucose. There are many curious and little) known facts about corn products. Over three hundred million pounds of starch are made annually in the I'nited States, mostly from corn kernel. That is three and a haff pounds of starch for each of us. Glucose or corn sugar is nothing but corn starch boiled down to a gum and treated with diluted sulphuric acid. The gummiest part is made into mucilage, I and the least gummy Into table starch and laundry' starch. The germ or life spark in the center of a kernel of corn is comparatively soft and oily. It is squeezed to produce corn oil, which goes mostly into soaps, though occasionally into artificial butter. The best of it is made into imitation olive oil, as the real olive is very scarce and dear. Linoleum or oil. cloth is surfaced with vulcanized corn oil, which resembles rubber: in fact, it is the only satisfactory adulterant for rubber goods. If you buy a cheap hot water bag to keep your feet warm on cold nights, and it bursts with dire consequences, you may be pretty sure that it was made more of corn-oil than of rubber. The refuse of the corn germ is made into what are called corn-oil cakes, which are highly prized for feeding sheep, and come back to our tables in the form of mutton. There are a lot of other feeds made from various sorts of corn refuse, from green corn stalks and other corn elements too numerous to men tlon. A great future has been predicted for denatured alcohol. This untaxed cheap alcohol is made almost wholly from corn, and is expected to be in demand as a fuel just as we now use kerosene; also for power purposes, as we employ gasoline In automobiles. The airship of the future will be driven by corn power, the men who fly in it will be corn fed, and the dynamite they drop into an enemy's camp will be mostly corn-made nitroglycerine. The three-day ship that is coming to reduce time across the Atlantic will use corn-made alcohol fuel instead of coal. Finally the newspapers and magazines of the future will be made from corn. ' We shall be living soon in the corn age; if we have not already entered that period. ABOUT COLLARS. Marks of Man's First Step Toward Civilization. There is much virtue in a collar. Many philosophers believe that it is the real distinction between a barbarian and a civilized being; but this is going a little too far, for the idea of the collar is evident even in primitive man. Those are nearer the mark who say that the real qualification of a gentleman?one more Inherent than birth, breeding, or the right to bear arms? is the ability to wear a clean collar without looking conspicuous. But all are agreed that man without a collar is a poor thing, and that unless he has one of the sort In vogue for the time being he Is sadly lacking in dignity, and a possible burglar or pickpocket. All through history, with one remarkable gap, the collar has been the sign of the superior person, one of the inclorita nf nnthnrltv ond the mark whieh distinguishes the really respectable individual from the Bohemian. The collar of the knightly order and of the mayor of a borough must have been vastly imposing in the days when to wear a collar was to be an exception. Man's first real step forward toward civilization was the assumption' of a collar, rt is true that the early collar was more of a necklace, and that it was made of teeth or cowrie shells, the teeth being the spoils of some enemy, such as a man of another tribe, or a wild beast which it was a credit to have killed. And it is a curious thing that the neck should have been the first part of the body to be decorated. It comes before the head, with the band of grass, or hide, into which feathers were stuck, and which evolved into the crown in one direction and into the hat in the other. It comes before the wrists, on which bangles have developed into bracelets and the kindred culfs; before the waist and long before the fingers. It was this primitive instinct for adorning the neck that led the African chieftain to reject all other forms of European raiment and to* bedeck himself with the paper collar of the wandering white man. And the more important a man became the greater was the number of strings of shells or teeth that he put round his neck, until ne oecame as swauiea as joeau xsruinmel or the Prince Regent, and no doubt as dignified. But then comes the curious gap in history. The ancient civilizations were not habitual collar wearers; but that was probably because they lived round about the Mediterranean, where it Is too hot to wrap up the neck, and because they looked on it as a barbarous thing to do, a habit to be left to the outlandish tribes. In fact, the Babylonians, Greeks and Romans classed collars with trousers as things which no one but a barbarian would wear, and that is the real reason why our civilization is so superior to theirs. The white, or linen, collar is quite a modern invention. It turned up suddenly in the Middle Ages in the form of the ruff, which was said to have been invented to hide a scar on some royal personage's neck. It reached its height in Elizabethan times, and then sank down into the lace collar of the cavalier, and the starched and plain linen of the Puritan. In Georgian days the collar was merged in the stock, only to come to the front again in Byronic times, when the poet wore the turneddown collar, which almost proclaimed its wearer a free-thinker. Next came the Regency collar, with its folds upon folds of cravat, which was worn in a modified form by old gentlemen even in the seventies, though twenty years before smart young men in London had worn a small all-round collar, just like that which is known today as the "military." Then in the sixties there was a painful lapse into the Byronic collar, which for some reason or another was called the "Shakespeare," perhaps from a linen draper's idea that one poet was as good as another. For the last thirty years the allof l Pf onllor Ho a roi P^n Qiinrpmp I "UUU Oliu WI.UI ?"? with such little eccentricities as turned down corners and butterfly fronts; though of late it has been threatened by the double collar, variously known as the "Roddy Owen" or the "Barmaid." By all the rules. If a single collar adds dignity to the wearer, a double collar should increase that dignity; but this Is not the case. In fact, it is one of the mysteries of collardom that the wearing of a double collar In evening dress is a hideous and Inexpiable crime. The great thing about a collar, that which gives it its importance. Is its aloofness from the coat. A coat-collar has no dignity, and is merel>? a fraud, pretending to be that which it Is not. The true collar must be sovereign and independent; it must encircle the neck justly, and neither hang round it like a necklace, nc "ompress it like a boaconstrictor. .aid, above and beyond all, it must wear the white flower of a blameless laundry.?T>nndon Globe. X4T Silicon Is now used in Germany to obtain a pure copper cast and copper alligation. TRAVEL ABROAD. Railroad Man Concedes It Some Advantages Over Travel Here. Reservation of places In dining cars by passengers is, according to K. F. Tasker, a railroad man of Philadelphia, who was Interviewed recently by a Washington Herald reporter, one of the good features of British and Continental railroads. "Crowding in diners or restaurant cars," said Mr. Tasker, "is entirely obviated by the custom of making reservations for seats at tables when the railroad ticket is bought. The meals are all table d'hote and served in two sections. When the tables are all filled, two waiters start through the car and serve the first course to all. The second course follows at the proper time, and in this way a carload of people may be quickly and satisfactorily fed." Among Mr. Tasker's observations was that smoking by women all over Europe is increasing. They use cigarettes, nanallv In rtwitn lira n t pars nlnnc UOUU,,J ?* v?. .vjth the men. "I notice little change In methods of railroad operation in Europe. Conditions there are so settled that there is nothing new. Corridor cars are becoming more popular, and more are being introduced. France, Italy and Germany are taking over more of the privately owned roads, until now they are nearly all government lines. In Holland two railroads, one owned by the state and the other by a private corporation, parallel with one another. I rode on both, and noticed little difference in operation. "In England there are no government owned roads, and I must say that they appeared much better managed and operated than the government lines on the continent. One may notice that in Great Britain private ownership shows In competition. On the Continent, where the government owns most of the roads, there is little or no advertising or bidding for business, while in England the papers are full of advertisements offering low week-end excursion rates to the people. "In England the railroads are allowed to pool under strict governmental supervision. The pooling feature does not appear to throttle competition, as the lines in England and Scotland are constantly putting their different advantages before the public." Mr. Tasker says, except for short trips and special excursions, the rates are much higher than they are in this country; particularly is this true of sleeping car fares. Dining car charges, he said, are about like those of American roads. He said that while there appears to be no law against the issuance of passes, railroads of Great Britain and the Continent are very strict on this point, few free tickets being given for any purpose. "LET THE PEOPLE RULE." APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS For Bryan and Kern Campaign Fund from the Democratic National Committee. Editor Yorkville Enquirer: Dear Sir: There are no secrets in this Cam* paign. Strictly practicing what he preaches, Mr. Bryan would not win victory with tainted money paying the election expenses. Not a dollar is to be accepted which requires any promise, either express or implied, other than for HONEST, IMPARTIAL GOVERNMENT. Mr. Bryan will enter the White House absolutely free from entangling alliances, free to serve all classes of honest citizens alike, or he will not enter it at all. Hence the course is plain. The campaign of Bryan and Kern must be conducted by trie people. The people must pay the necessary campaign expenses if tney want public servants who will serve their interests. Special interests and favored classes, having secured "SWOLLEN FORTUNES" by purchasing favors in the past with MILLIONS CONTRIBUTED TO CONTROL ELECTIONS, stand ready'to give MILLIONS MORE FOR CONTINUED FAVORS. But that class never gives a dollar unless it buys a pledge. Mr. Bryan says, from March 4th, " ? ? ? ' - P" mil P II 13U3, "Ltl inc ecurLt rtui-c.. This can come only if the people pay their own bills, and control their own elections. "BEWARE OF THE TRUSTS BEARING GIFTS." That policy of the favored few buying a mortgage on the Government meant that trie candidate for President knew a few people only in an entire Stale. Bryan says, "We will take the cause of PEOPLE'S RULE home to the people in every county." You can serve the grand cause of popular government tnrough the columns of your paper. It reaches the fireside of the patriot who loves his country for his country's GOOD; as distinguished from the greedy possessor of swollen fortunes who loves nis country only for his country's GOODS. Please carry this letter in Bold Type at the masthead of your paper, asking every one who favors Government by the people to pay you, at once, as many dollars as he can spare to aid the Campaign for BRYAN, KERN AND PEOPLE'S RULE. You forward these gifts of honest hearts and homes every week to the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, with the name of each contributor and amounts given. The Treasurer will forward you a certificate like the copy enclosed for each one, asking you to deliver these certificates. Once more, you should be a part of the Great Organization bearing the Lamp of Light to every nook and corner of Free America. Our Country is for the People; its Government must be by the People. Sincerely, NORMAN E. MACK, Chairman Democratic National Committee. M. C. WETMORE, Chairman National Finance Committee. HERMAN RIDDER, Treasurer Democratic National Committee. Chicago, Sept. 3, 1908. SEND IN YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. In accordance with the above THE ENQUIRER will receive subscriptions to the Democratic National Campaign Fund and urges all loyal Democrats to send In their contributions. The Enquirer will transmit them weekly to Hon. Herman Rfdder, treasurer of the Democratic National committee, who will issue to each contributor a beautifully executed acknowledgment printed in three colors as a souvenir of their devotion to the cause of Democracy and the principles of Government by the People. When sending In your contribution money use the accompanying remittance blank, and. unless, otherwise requested your name will be printed in The Enquirer together with the amount given. REMITTANCE BLANK Cut out this Coupon and send it together with your contribution to The Enquirer. Enclosed please find dollars ($ ) This is my contribution to the Democratic National Campaign Fund for 1908. Name Town Address Money should be sent by check, draft, express or money order. W. M. KMN PREPARE ^OR WINTER. Right now is a good time to prepare for the cold weather that will come on a little later. If you want the Best, Quickest, Hottest, Most Economical and Convenient Coal Heater on the market, see us about a COLE HOT BLAST COAL HEATER It Is the warmest thing- you ever saw in the way of a Heater. We also have COLE'S HOT BLAST WOOD HEATERS, and a nice line of Coal Grates at $2.50 and upward. YORK FURNITURE CO. You Pay the Freight If you buy anything to eat, wear, drink or smell, the freight is included in the price and as this is a tree country you are guaranteed the right to buy where and of whom you please, i and therefore no man can question your privilege to choose for yourself as to what corporation, firm or Individual you will pay your own money for the commodity desired. If you do not receive the best value for your money you are the loser and usually it is your own fault. Especially is this true in the matter of buying life insurance. The readers of this paper have been reminded, time and again during the past nine years that in life insurance contracts as in all other commodities there was only one best, and that that best was offered only by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J., and that I guaranteed to prove the truthfulness of my assertion to any who asked for the proof. Scores of men have asked for and gotten the proof, but there are scores who have not yet given me the opportunity. If yob are in the latter class, you are standing In your own light. I am always ready to show you and as stated, vnn shntild hp wllllner to be shown. Don't put It off until next week. You may not need it then, but if you do not your family or creditors will. See? SAM M. GRIST, Special Agent. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of York. IN PROBATE COURT. By L. R. Williams. Esq., Probate Judge of Yora County. WHEREAS Mrs. EMMA L. McCAW, ex parte Administratrix of the estate of WM. B. McCAW, has applied to me for Letters of Administration on all and singular, the goods ' and chattels, rights and credits of WM. B. McCAW, late of the county aforesaid, deceased! I These are, therefore, to cite and ad- i monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at our next Probate Court for the said county, to he 1 holden at York Court House on the i 14TH DAY OF OCTOBER. 1908. to . shew cause, If any, why the said Administration should not be granted. i Given under my hand and seal, this I 28th day of September, In the year i of our Lord one thousand nine hun- I dred and eight, and in the 133rd ] vear of American Independence.- i L. R. WILLIAMS. ! Probate Judge of York County. 78 t 2t . i YORKVILLE BUGGY CO. ] Deering Mowing Machines i ARE THE BEST i AXD THE LIGHTEST RUNNING. WE HAVE THEM. I Yorkville Buggy Co. i AT THE BRATTON FARM. j Separated Cream, Sweet Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Butter, Vegetables and Fruits, delivered in Yorkville on Tues- I days and Fridays or at the farm at all times. Postal card mailed in the afternoon will receive attention next morning. a J. MEEK BURNS, Manager. ^ Tan ">R f.t " S li SW Colored Card Board and Blotting s Paper in large sheets can be had at The Enquirer office. |i IHBHnHHMHlMI THE "Sterling" is one of the newest "LAMM" conceptions for AUTUMN and WINTER. Be a "MODEL" dresser and leave your measure for a Suit at the Lamm Agency to-day. 500 exclusive patterns to choose from. EDY, Agent. professional (Cards. A. Y. CART WRIGHT, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, S. C. JEjfife OFFICE HOURS: 9 *m. to I pm.;s p m. to 5pir Offlce upstalra in the Moore building over I. W. Johnson's store. DR. HI. W. WHITE, DENTIST YORKVILLE, S. C. Opposite Postoffice, Yorkville, 3. C. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW Xn. 3 I<a\v Hungc YORKVILLE, 3. C. J. 8. BKICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. GEO. W. S. HAliT, ATTORNEY AT LAW YORKVILLE, S. C. 2 Law Range. 'Phone Office No. 58 0. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings FINLEY & JENNINGS, YORKVILLE. S. C. Office in Wilson Building, opposite Court House. Telephont No. 126. YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS. Remember the Dead Every grave In York county should be appropriately marked with a Tombstone or Monument. To do this is not only a mark of respect and esteem to one's departed relatives, but it Is desirable and proper to place an enduring record in stone over all graves. If you have loved ones who have passed to the great beyond and are considering the idea of a suitable marker for their graves, we will appreciate a call] from you that we may have an opportunity of showing you designs of Head Stones and Monuments and quoting you prices. YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS. W. B. Wylie, Sec. and Treas. TAX NOTICE?1908. Office of County Treasurer. Yorkville, S. C., Sept. 15, 1908. NOTICE is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county will be opened on the 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1908, and remain open until oiom t-V * v AP nrrrvf DITD 1 QAfi I lit; 0101 L/A 1 VI' lor the collection of STATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL TAXES for the fiscal year 1908, without penalty; after which day ONE PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of JANUARY, 1909, and' TWO PER CENT penalty for all payments made in the month of FEBRUARY, 1909, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be added on all payments made from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH, to the 15TH DAY OF MARCH. 1909, and after this date all unpaid taxes go Into executions and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will attend at the following places on the days named: At Yorkville, Thursday, October 15, to Tuesday, October 20th. At Smyrna, Wednesday, October 11st. At Hickory Grove, Thursday and Friday, October 22nd and 23rd. At Sharon, Saturday, October 24th. At McConnellsville, Monday, October 26th. At Tirzah, Tuesday, October 27th. At Clover, Wednesday and Thurslay, October 28th and 29th. At Yorkville from Friday, October 30th, to Tuesday, November 3rd. At Coates's Tavern, from 12 o'clock, Wednesday, November 4th, until 12 m., rhursday, November 5th. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, .^uvcuiuci uiu a.nu ? tn. At Rock Kill from Monday, Xovemper 9th, to Saturday, November 14th. And at Yorkville from Monday, November 16th, until the 31st day of December, 1908, after which day the penalties will attach as stated above. H. A. D. NEELY, County Treasurer. 74 t 4t Excursion Rates via Southern Railway. Mew Orleans, La., and Return?Tickets on sale October 7th, 8th and 9th inclusive, limited October 24th, 1908. 3irmingham, Ala., and Return?Tickets on sale October 18th, 19th and 20th, inclusive, limited October 26th, 1908. Milwaukee, Wis., and Return?Tickets on sale October 8th to 14th inclusive, limited October 21st, 1908. Denver, Col., and Return?Tickets on sale daily until September 30th, limited October 31st, 190S. For rates, detailed information, etc., pply to Southern Railway Ticket igents or address, John L. Meek, asistant General Passenger Agent, Atinta, Ga., or J. C. Lusk. Division Pasenger Agent, Charleston. S. C. W Good Printing? See The Enquirer. J. O. WILBRON FOR 8ALE For Sale?One small Coal Stove; 3 good Wood Heaters?At bargain. See me at once. ^ *""" J. W. & M. A. McFarland. Part of Paul Bratton tract, 116 acres, 1-2 mile south of limits of Yorkvllle; 2 new houses, 4-rooms to each. Barn and other buildings; 2-horse farm, about 75 acres In timber, 30 acres in original timber?oak, poplar, pine. 456 Acree in Bullock's Creek township. Land of E. M. and Jas. E. Bankhead. From 250 to 300 acres In open land; nearly 200 acres of bottoms?fine corn land. Plenty of wood. J. H. Neely Home?73 acres Inside of the incorporation of Clover; 5-room house; barn shedded on 3 sides, stables; 2 branches, one tenant house; 60 acres In cultivation. At a bargain?for quick sale. 38 Acres?Good 3-room dwelling; good barn and cotton house; one mile of the incorporate limits of Yorkvllle. Adjoins C. M. Inman; land level and in high state of cultivation; a beautiful little home. $35 per Acre. 109 Acres of Land?Six miles of Yorkvllle; bounded by the YorkvilleRock Hill road; on another side by the Chester and Armstrong Ford road; land lies level; i mile from high school academy; joining lands of C. M. Hughes; for quick sale; $2,500. Property of H. C. Straus*?18J acres inside of the incorporate limits of Yorkvllle; 3J acres in timber. Good spring. 15 acres in high state of cultivation. Price $35 per acre. Adjoins tho i. w T.niithlan Dlaee and others. Ed Carson tract?One tract of land, 8 miles south of Yorkville, 1} miles to Guthriesville and good school; 4 mile to Bethesda church and school.; 108 acres, 60 acres In cultivation; 48 acres in woodland, no waste land; one well, one tenant house, 1 dwelling, 4-rooms, 1 barn, 3 stalls; good little barn. One tract 146 acres, 2 miles west of Bethany High school and church. Joins lands of Mrs. Pursley, J. Lee McOlll. 70 acres in open land, balance in woods, 2 streams, 2 houses?good; 4 stalls and barn; fine orchard. Robert Caldwell residence; most beautiful street In Yorkville. Twostory, 8-room, newly painted; 16 acres of .land. On King's Mountain street. At a bargain. J. F. Youngblood?New residence, 5 rooms, electric lights, water, sewerage; Lincoln street, Yorkville, S. C. Miss Belle Crepes?Residence; 6rooms; 226 feet front, adjoins C. H. Sandlfer and W, C. Latimer. For a quick sale. Land of J. Q. Howe? 116} acres; 7 miles of Rock Hill, ft mile of Newport; 1 dwelling, 5-rooms, 2 stories; one new tenant house; 60 acres in cultivation; 10 acres fine botton land In cultivation, not subject to overflew. About 36 acres In wood. ^ W. H. Stewart land?430 acres; one 5-room cottage, a large barn?two stories, 60 by 30; also a large oow barn; 4 tenant houses; 60 acres in pasture; 200 acres in cultivation, at Ebenezer, j mile from church. A nice place for a home, and flne community, about 21 miles from Winthrop. Price |25 per Acre. Description of the C. S. Whitaker place.?Contains 106 acres; 41 miles from Yorkville, on the King's Mountain road; adjoining the lands of D. M. Hall, J. M. Stroup and others. One 2-story, 6-room house. Neatly painted. Good barn and crib; one tenant house; 3-4 mile of Filbert About 80 acres under cultivation, 16 acres in timber, 8 acres in bottom land, not subject to overflow. Mr. T. E. Whltesides?176 acres, 11 miles N. W. Smyrna, adjoining London siding, has one dwelling, 3-rooms, new, celled overhead, and petition. Two tenant houses, 1 shedded; 60 acres in timber, 20,000 feet of saw timber. Land lies comparatively level. Has branches, small orchard. Near New Enon, i mile of Canaan M. E. church. Has 1,000 cords of wood. Within 1 mile of A. R. P. church. Within i mile of London 81ding. Has welC springs near each tenant house, new barn. Price per acre, 322.60. A E. Burns plac^-One tract 119} acres, 1 miles west of Yorkville, near Adair's Ferry road, Joining lands of R. N. McElwee, J. F. Smith, 1 dwelling, 5rooms, log and weatherboard house, 2 story, one chimney. Large barn, all necessary outbuildings; well; one tenant house, 3-rooms, weatherboard ed and frame, with barn. 26 acres in pasture, 10 to 20 in bottom, branch through place; 30 acres in original ioresc, p ue, oak, hickory, 15 acres In old field pine; 40 acres in cultivation; 1} mile of school and Beersheba Presbyterian church; near New Zion emd Enon Baptist churches. Price, $25 per acre. R. K. Lowry Tract?One tract of land, 212 acres, 4 miles east of Yorkville, adjoining the land of Jim Moss, D. Benfield, J. B. Scott; one dwelling 18 by 20 with shed rooms, (3-rooms) good barn shedded; double cribs; has six houses altogether, with three rooms, they are new, and have good well water. Six-horse farm open, 150 acres in cultivation, about 20 acres In branch bottom, not subject to overflow, land lies level, red and dark, blackjack, (mulatto land), good pasture, 50 acres? li miles Delphos school?graded school. $30.00 per Acre.. 274 acres, 6 miles south of Yorkville, Joins the land of Robert Moore, T. A. Gwyn and others. One new 2-room house, one good 3-room house with barn and all necessary outbuildings; 15 or 20 acres bottom, 10 acres fine pasture, 75 acres or more in timber, 75 acres in cultivation; land lies level and rolling. Will divide this place to suit the purchaser. $2,700 will buy it, and it is a great bargain. 51 acres of land?the J. W. Sherrer tract, 2j miles of court house; two good houses, four rooms each, thirty acres In cultivation, 8 acres in fine bottom corn. This is a bargain, and a profit yielder. 79 acres, 5-room cottage, painted white, with green blinds. A beautiful 2 acre grove, (as pretty as the court house yard); a 4-room tenant house and barn. Has new all necessary outbuildings?everything in good repair. Land lies level; in high state of cultivation. The best small farm in the county. 35 acres in original timber; 7 miles Rock Hill, 1 mile Newport and Tirzah, 1-2 mile of A. R, P. church. The Joe Rose house and lot near Graded school on East Jefferson street 75 acres?Fort Mill township, 3i miles of Plneville, 20 acres of creek and branch bottom; plenty of wood?$1,600. S. L. Brown?1 3-room house and lot Filbert. 108 acres?J. E. Castles land. 450 acres?Home of S. P. Blanken8hip, Flint Hill; also 210 acres, land S. P. Blankenship. 102 acres?$11.50?Butler Black. 60 acres?R. W. Bailes, Bell land. One 4-room dwelling, 1 acre lot; also 2 large lots on West Madison St?Mrs. W. S. Peters. The Shubert place; 32 acres; Joins the corporate limits?$850. 99J acres; J. R. Ferguson place? Filbert. 78 acres, J mile New Zion?$1,200. 127 acres; lower Steel Creek township, N. C.; $15 per acre. 151 acres; Dr. White, Miller Place; 4 miles of Yorkville. 235 acres: 5 miles of Rock Hill; rents for 15 bales of cotton?$5,000. David Russell place: 12$ acres near corporate limits. 125 Acres?a beautiful 5-room cottage: good new barn?8 stalls: double crib. Everything In good shape; 4 tenant houses: land lies well; plenty of wood: Bethel township, 6 miles of Clover. At a bargain?J. M. Barnett. I wish my friends to know that I can sell their land or buy land for them better than they can. I am prepared to handle any proposition. I call special attention to the 79 acres near Tlrzah. It Is the best bargain In the county. Must sell at once. Now is the time to make your trades. You trade now, and make your payments in the fall or the first of the year. ,1. C. WTLRORN. Real Estate. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. Ofllee of County Superintendent of Education. YORKVILLE, S. C.. Sept. 27, 1908. THE regular Fall Examination of Applicants to teach in the Public Schools of York county, will be held In the Court House at Yorkvllle on FRIDAY. OCTOBER 16, from 9 a. m., to 4 p. m. Applicants will furnish stationery. T. E. McMACKIN, Superintendent of Education. 78 t 3t W Good Printing? See The Enquirer.